The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-07
SATURDAY, MAY Z, 1887.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
LOCAL BREvIT1Es.

The melancholy days have come,
The saddest of the year.
May Day, Sunday last, was charming
day, inviting to all the world to be out in the
balmy air and the warm sunshine.
Judge Smith has excused George w. Dern,
Jr., from jury service, and on Tuesday drew
VIM. A. Cunningham in his place.
Burns Post, of this city, will meet on next
Saturday night to make arrangements for
Decoration Day exercises, May 30th.
The Westminster Gas Light Company on
Wednesday declared dividend of three per
cent on the capital stock, payable after the
10th inst.
Mr.. James E. Smith is having large stable
built on the rear of his premises, on Church
street, and proposes opening sales and
livery stable.
Door-to- Virtue Lodge, A. F. & A. NJ, this
city, will take part in the great Masonic pa
rade next Thursday in Baltimore. The
Lodge will be about forty strong.
Isaiah Copenhaver, of Tyrone, has been
granted pension by the Pension Bureau,
Washington Littleton d. Davis, of Harri-
sonville, Baltimore county, has also been
granted pension.
Mrs. McGirr, of Central Hall School, and
about thirty of her pupils, spent Tuesday af-
ternoon in Judge Smiths woods, adjoining
Westminster, gathering flowers and enjoying
themselves generally.
Miss Mary h. Shellman, of Westminster,
has been invited by the Antietam Memorial
Association to read poem on Decoration
Day at Antietam Battle Field. Miss She'll
man will probably accept.
There will be an open air concert at Belle
Grove Square this Saturday evening, at
o'clock by the Westminster Band. Last Sat
urday evening the Band was out on a general
serenade, and made most excellent mnsic.
Now May with life and music
The blooming valley fills,
And rears her flowery arches
For all the little rills.
The lSerenade.
The recently elected city officers will go
into office on the third Monday in May, the
10th. The city has promptly met the interest
on the bonds issued a year. ago. and will re-
deem the $500 of the bonds due this month.
The warm sun has brought out the butter
flies, and Mr.. Ambrose Hayden, living near
this city, has started his annual campaign
against them. Up to Wednesday he had
knocked down twenty-five. Last year he
killed 10, 1877.
On Monday evening a stone was thrown
into car window of the train arriving here
at s. l6 as it was passing along somewhere
near Patapsco. A passenger was asleep in
the seat opposite the window when the stone
crashed through.
J. II. Burns, whose death near Mansfield,
Illinois, by the falling of a scaffold was, noted
IN last weeks ADVOCATE, was son of Mr..
Daniel Burns, of this city. He was in his
fortieth year, and leaves wife, daughter of
Mr. Jacob Petry, and seven children.
Those who intend to make contributions
TO the May Fair and Festival in Baltimore, to
he held next week for the Hospital Relief
Society, should not forget that contribu-
tons should be sent to the ADVOCATE office
by 8 O. clock next Tuesday afternoon, the 10th.
Mrs Theodore H. Biggs, Of Cranberry Val
ley, will sail from New York in week or
two for Belfast, Ireland. Mrs. Biggs is
native of the Emerald Isle. and is going back
to visit relatives and friends after ten years
absence. Mr.. Biggs will probably accompany
his wife.
A. P. Crenshaw, Jr., Superintendent of Con-
struetion of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone Company, was here on Monday
and went over the proposed line to Manches-
ter. He made final arrangements for building
the line, and the distribution of poles began
on Wednesday.
The Westminster Forest and Stream Club
will meet shortly to make arrangements for
the summer encampment. The boys are
waiting for the recovery of Mr.. Elias Ging
ling, the president of the club, before holding
n meeting. Mr.. Yingling is able to be out
and is much improved after his long illness.
The Westminster Driving Association met
ut Central Hotel last week, and instructed a
committee to look after the lease of the track
for another year. Another meeting will be
held next week. 1t is proposed to reorganize
the Association and give it new life. The
former president, Mr.. w. w. Power. has left
Westminster, and another chief officer will
have to be elected.
Carroll Division, Sons of Temperance,
have been meeting on Saturday nights for
about forty years, but at their last meeting it
was concluded that Monday nights would be
more convenient, and by unanimous vote
the meeting was changed from Saturday to
Monday. The Division, therefore, will not
meet tonight, but will assemble on Monday
night, under the new order.
The law in regard to licenses was changed
by the last Legislature and licenses do not all
expire the LIST Of May as formerly. They can
be procured at any time, and run for a year
from the date Of issue. Most of them, how
ever, expire on the LIST Of May, and about
81 900 have been paid at the Clerks Office for
renuals in the past ten days. The receipts on
last Monday were about 81, 700.
Edward Greer, former left fielder of the
Westminster team, now on the Athletic club,
Philadelphia, played his first game this sea-
son in Baltimore on Tuesday, holding centre
field. The Athletic club was defeated, but it
was no fault of his, as he played without an
.errse, made base hit, run, and stole two
of the six stolen bases by his club. He is the
a a Il ~ IL. L.. /.
IS not put regularly on the diamond.
Monday and Tuesday were busy days in
Westminster. There was a rush for licenses
at the Clerks office; the usual business in
the Orphans Court: the County Commission
ers were besieged by persons wanting
transfers and Attachments. and the School
Board had an unusual number of persons be-
fore them. At the banks much business was
done, and merchants and business men gem
orally handled a good deal of cash, and the
hotels entertained very many people
While on their way to this city last Satur-
4day. and not many hundred yards from their
home near Winfield, Mr.. and Mrs. John Stem
met with au accident. They were in buggy
and driving young horse. The animal be-
came frightened and ran up an embankment,
apseiting the buggy, throwing the occupants
out and smashing the buggy to pieces.
Neither Mr.. Stem nor his wife we're injured,
and they got another carriage, hitched up the
colt and came on to Westminster without
mishap.
The First National Bank of Baltimore,
from which John d. Lisie embezzled $780,
939. 20, is making an effort to recover a part,
and on Wednesday proceedings were insti-
tuted to obtain 81, 900, the amount of a mort
gage on the farm of Mrs. Isle. near Finks-
burg, which money it is claimed, was paid by
Iisle with funds taken fiom the bank. The
bank will also endeavor to recover from Mrs.
Lisle the cost Of the great improvements made
on the farm. which were also made. it is
alleged, with funds taken from the bank.
so@e one went into the dog poisoning bus
iness 10 Westminster last week. On Friday
and Saturday mornings City Bailiff Klinedinsi
found about dozen dead dogs, but could
find no clue to the perpetrator. Among those
ssho lost dogs were Thomas Turtle, Edward
Lynch and H. Haines. Some dogs were poi.
soned on their owners premises and others
were found dead on streets and alleys. In
bis operations the dog poisoner made no dis
finction between "mongrel, puppy, whelr
and hound. and cur of low degree. There